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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@megbasham But the ‘denomination’ which in this case is one of the largest co-op

@megbasham But the ‘denomination’ which in this case is one of the largest co-operation of churches, should not try to enforce a debatable matter that is not primary to the faith. Right?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@jerryfourroux That’s actually the direction Bruce Ware took, the author of CBMW stuff and the following: One God in Three Persons: Unity of Essence, Distinction of Persons, Implications for Life (2015). It became known as Eternal Functional Subord...

@jerryfourroux That’s actually the direction Bruce Ware took, the author of CBMW stuff and the following: One God in Three Persons: Unity of Essence, Distinction of Persons, Implications for Life (20

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@faboIus As far as I can tell, the word ‘head’ didn’t start getting used for a l

@faboIus As far as I can tell, the word ‘head’ didn’t start getting used for a leader in church contexts until around 1000 AD when it was applied to the pope.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

No pastor, elder, overseer, apostle, deacon, prophet, or father is ever called head (kephalē) in the NT. If head simply means authority or boss, why is kephalē never used for any leader in the church? Why is a father never called the kephalē of hi...

No pastor, elder, overseer, apostle, deacon, prophet, or father is ever called head (kephalē) in the NT. If head simply means authority or boss, why is kephalē never used for any leader in the church

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@AndrewD82566840 @smashbaals How many heads does the church have? Show me one i

@AndrewD82566840 @smashbaals How many heads does the church have? Show me one instance in scripture where a pastor or elder is called kephale of his church. Didn’t find one? Now please explain why n

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@cgore @smashbaals Well, since this was a personal letter to Timothy whom Paul spent years with at Ephesus, all that matters is that Timothy understood who Paul was referring to. Paul writes in ch 1 that some are deceived and are shown mercy (1:13,16...

@cgore @smashbaals Well, since this was a personal letter to Timothy whom Paul spent years with at Ephesus, all that matters is that Timothy understood who Paul was referring to. Paul writes in ch 1 t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@PtrCHSturgeon @WesleyLHuff Paul was deceived and thought he was serving God by

@PtrCHSturgeon @WesleyLHuff Paul was deceived and thought he was serving God by killing Christians. Because He thought He was serving God, when God revealed Himself, he submitted himself. He wasn’t be

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@megbasham It’s not progressive to continue allowing independent Baptist churche

@megbasham It’s not progressive to continue allowing independent Baptist churches to appoint female pastors based on no scriptural ban. Can’t speak to the rest of the disagreements, but keep the main

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@BiblicalBeauty @DwightsWordOTD This is a good question. Egalitarians don’t maintain that there are no distinctions between male and female. It is just that those distinctions are why they need to work together and they don’t justify having gender ro...

@BiblicalBeauty @DwightsWordOTD This is a good question. Egalitarians don’t maintain that there are no distinctions between male and female. It is just that those distinctions are why they need to wor

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@NateSchlomann Please tell me: what is the measuring standard? Is it sola script

@NateSchlomann Please tell me: what is the measuring standard? Is it sola scriptura or the Bible plus history? Is history infallible? I think you are confused. Egal and gender confusion are two compl

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@thebereanmillen I think you are confusing egalitarian with gender confusion. Th

@thebereanmillen I think you are confusing egalitarian with gender confusion. These two things are completely unrelated.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@DwightsWordOTD Egalitarianism is only a slippery slope if you believe it by rejecting what Paul wrote. I am not rejecting anything Paul wrote. I believe every word and all the grammar is inspired. Denial of Christ the Creator? Since when did I do t...

@DwightsWordOTD Egalitarianism is only a slippery slope if you believe it by rejecting what Paul wrote. I am not rejecting anything Paul wrote. I believe every word and all the grammar is inspired. D

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@DwightsWordOTD Is 2000 years of church history (presuming that’s even true) ins

@DwightsWordOTD Is 2000 years of church history (presuming that’s even true) inspired? Is the standard church history or scripture?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@DwightsWordOTD Is Charles Johnson inspired? Why do you think his claim is true? The great commission entailing teaching the nations to obey everything Jesus commanded His disciples is given to women too. The Bible is not written only for males. Wh...

@DwightsWordOTD Is Charles Johnson inspired? Why do you think his claim is true? The great commission entailing teaching the nations to obey everything Jesus commanded His disciples is given to women

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@DwightsWordOTD Why are you claiming I pervert scripture? I think perverting scr

@DwightsWordOTD Why are you claiming I pervert scripture? I think perverting scripture is bad too. Mocking God? What are you talking about?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@megbasham Hm. It seems in this case that some churches believe that their leadership should be only male. Fine. I go to a church like that. But if a church reads the text and draws a different conclusion without rejecting the inspired text, why are ...

@megbasham Hm. It seems in this case that some churches believe that their leadership should be only male. Fine. I go to a church like that. But if a church reads the text and draws a different conclu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@megbasham It’s too bad that this was the argument given. I would think that it

@megbasham It’s too bad that this was the argument given. I would think that it is because Baptists have the right to self-determination of how they govern their local churches, and there are good Bib

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@ShawnWGillogly @McDIU05 @megbasham @Jeff_Iorg I believe that scripture is fully

@ShawnWGillogly @McDIU05 @megbasham @Jeff_Iorg I believe that scripture is fully inspired and inerrant and do not believe your conclusion that it clearly states that an elder must be a male or must no

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@Reneechop @MindlessNotion @WesleyLHuff Well, I’m certainly glad that no one her

@Reneechop @MindlessNotion @WesleyLHuff Well, I’m certainly glad that no one here believes this. Did you know this is what John Piper teaches? https://t.co/sJ1RdFR6il

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@MindlessNotion @WesleyLHuff Knowing the outcome doesn’t predetermine it or mean that God made it happen. This kind of knowing isn’t really knowing anything and negates God’s omniscience. This is because it says He pulls the strings of every molecul...

@MindlessNotion @WesleyLHuff Knowing the outcome doesn’t predetermine it or mean that God made it happen. This kind of knowing isn’t really knowing anything and negates God’s omniscience. This is bec

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@JohnMar98888097 @smashbaals But you take it too far to say God commands the pastor be male. There is no command here, and in Koine Greek, the male form can be used in a generic way of both male and female depending on the context. To clarify, Paul w...

@JohnMar98888097 @smashbaals But you take it too far to say God commands the pastor be male. There is no command here, and in Koine Greek, the male form can be used in a generic way of both male and f

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@JohnMar98888097 @smashbaals That’s a misreading of the idiom Paul is using sinc

@JohnMar98888097 @smashbaals That’s a misreading of the idiom Paul is using since taken literally, it means you have to be married which would disqualify Paul himself and he was most definitely an ove

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@SonOfManXY @smashbaals In a marriage, man is the head of his wife and Christ is the head of His church, both are one flesh relationships and the basis for marriage had Eve made from Adam’s flesh and bone and Jesus provide life to His church. But he...

@SonOfManXY @smashbaals In a marriage, man is the head of his wife and Christ is the head of His church, both are one flesh relationships and the basis for marriage had Eve made from Adam’s flesh and

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals But you changed the text. First, it says “a woman” not “women”. Second, the usual word for authority is not authentein. By taking a snippet out of context and even misrepresenting the details you can turn any text into a p...

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals But you changed the text. First, it says “a woman” not “women”. Second, the usual word for authority is not authentein. By taking a snippet out of context and even misrepre

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals And David killed Goliath as a boy using a stone. Man

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals And David killed Goliath as a boy using a stone. Man tries to achieve through human strength what God says He achieves by His Spirit. A woman participating in battle is an

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals I appreciate your concern for me and what you consid

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals I appreciate your concern for me and what you consider a malady. I was once a complementarian until I started actually studying scripture instead of just listening to what

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals If the levite males led simply because they slaughtered the idolators, then what about Jael who drove a tent peg through Sisera’s head? I’ll read your article and respond separately but you still haven’t shown me where in...

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals If the levite males led simply because they slaughtered the idolators, then what about Jael who drove a tent peg through Sisera’s head? I’ll read your article and respond

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals Preaching isn’t what was done in the church but what was done out in the crowds. The church is meant to use its gifts for the mutual edification of each other. Church today doesn’t look like the church in the NT, but not ...

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals Preaching isn’t what was done in the church but what was done out in the crowds. The church is meant to use its gifts for the mutual edification of each other. Church toda

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@MarqueStuddock @BronWen727104 @smashbaals Paul says it was because he wasn’t de

@MarqueStuddock @BronWen727104 @smashbaals Paul says it was because he wasn’t deceived not because of being the boss. Culpability goes to the one who knows better but does nothing, not because he was

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@MarqueStuddock @BronWen727104 @smashbaals Submitting to doesn’t mean hierarchic

@MarqueStuddock @BronWen727104 @smashbaals Submitting to doesn’t mean hierarchically underneath as in a command/control structure. That’s not the NT model. It means not always doing what you want but

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

RT @ryanschatz: @DennyBurk @TomBuck Baptists have a wide range of things that ea

RT @ryanschatz: @DennyBurk @TomBuck Baptists have a wide range of things that each church does differently. That’s because baptists are sel…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@DennyBurk @TomBuck Baptists have a wide range of things that each church does differently. That’s because baptists are self governed. These differences are not primary which is why they can co-operate. Why do you think you have to force your underst...

@DennyBurk @TomBuck Baptists have a wide range of things that each church does differently. That’s because baptists are self governed. These differences are not primary which is why they can co-operat

1Ti 2:12 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@Gates_of_Derry @colinsmo This statement is only in a single verse in a personal letter to Timothy with the purpose of stopping false teaching not the purpose of stopping anyone from teaching truth to anyone. Notice Paul shifts from the plural in v9...

@Gates_of_Derry @colinsmo This statement is only in a single verse in a personal letter to Timothy with the purpose of stopping false teaching not the purpose of stopping anyone from teaching truth to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@CalebDugan7 @paulogia0 We are given this life to seek God and put our faith in

@CalebDugan7 @paulogia0 We are given this life to seek God and put our faith in Him. When you die, you find out whether you got it right as you now see behind the curtain. No one in that realm is unsu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals How do you know this exactly? Can you list each of t

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals How do you know this exactly? Can you list each of the men called pastor or elder in the New Testament? What are their names and where were they called pastor/elder/oversee

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@AndrewD82566840 @smashbaals Yes because no pastor is called the head of the church except Christ. The church doesn’t have many heads, only one. A head in scripture and in the contexts we are referring to doesn’t mean the authority over or boss of. I...

@AndrewD82566840 @smashbaals Yes because no pastor is called the head of the church except Christ. The church doesn’t have many heads, only one. A head in scripture and in the contexts we are referrin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@BronWen727104 @MarqueStuddock @smashbaals Exactly. In fact, I am my wife’s help

@BronWen727104 @MarqueStuddock @smashbaals Exactly. In fact, I am my wife’s helper a lot of the time because of my physical strength.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@ScottC1517 @BronWen727104 @smashbaals Koine Greek often uses the male form as g

@ScottC1517 @BronWen727104 @smashbaals Koine Greek often uses the male form as generic. Are you not aware of this? Because of this, in order to be clear, it would have to say, “must not be a woman.”

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals First, that men are physically stronger man mean they are more suited to plowing fields, but what does that have to do with teaching? Women cannot teach others? Second, the fall happened because Eve was deceived and Adam ...

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals First, that men are physically stronger man mean they are more suited to plowing fields, but what does that have to do with teaching? Women cannot teach others? Second, th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@Gates_of_Derry @colinsmo Someone who advocates for plural marriages is clearly doing something that is not promoted in the New Testament. 1Ti 3:2 can’t mean that an overseer must be married (Paul was single) or male but it certainly means monogamous...

@Gates_of_Derry @colinsmo Someone who advocates for plural marriages is clearly doing something that is not promoted in the New Testament. 1Ti 3:2 can’t mean that an overseer must be married (Paul was

1Ti 3:2 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@HuLatimer @colinsmo It’s false teaching and practice to have a godly woman teac

@HuLatimer @colinsmo It’s false teaching and practice to have a godly woman teach or pastor? Hogwash! The truth doesn’t depend on which vessel speaks it.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@Patriot_Angler @smashbaals What does Paul say exactly?

@Patriot_Angler @smashbaals What does Paul say exactly?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@Michael26576616 @oliverburdick Wait, which is your church? I want to watch the

@Michael26576616 @oliverburdick Wait, which is your church? I want to watch the YouTube so I can hear if you aren’t sitting quietly and listening…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@Michael26576616 @oliverburdick Do you interrupt your pastor when he is speaking

@Michael26576616 @oliverburdick Do you interrupt your pastor when he is speaking?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@merelyjwright @Eric_Conn How did it move further to the left? The churches that

@merelyjwright @Eric_Conn How did it move further to the left? The churches that define their own polity are baptists who all disagree about things yet knew how to cooperate since these were not prima

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@killsecularism @bjjfulcrum @smashbaals Gen 1:28 says to *them* both to rule. Th

@killsecularism @bjjfulcrum @smashbaals Gen 1:28 says to *them* both to rule. That was God’s creation and it was very good. I don’t know what Bible you are reading…

Gen 1:28 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@smashbaals Many women agree that they should not be pastors or elders and would

@smashbaals Many women agree that they should not be pastors or elders and would vote for only men to be pastors. Many men like myself believe that women can be elders and pastors. Why do you think

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@ScottC1517 @smashbaals What is the final arbiter is scripture and not church hi

@ScottC1517 @smashbaals What is the final arbiter is scripture and not church history.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-11

@colinsmo Don’t you think your time would be better spent dealing with actually false teaching rather than chasing after which vessel is doing the teaching? So long as a person is of godly and exemplary character and sound in the faith and gifted to ...

@colinsmo Don’t you think your time would be better spent dealing with actually false teaching rather than chasing after which vessel is doing the teaching? So long as a person is of godly and exempla

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-11

RT @KaeleyT: Quite pleased that enough people in the SBC are discerning enough t

RT @KaeleyT: Quite pleased that enough people in the SBC are discerning enough to reject the proposed ban on female pastors three years in…

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